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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 12-37, February 2023., 2023 The mutability and physical perfectibility of animal bodies was a scientific and aesthetic preoccupation in nineteenth‐century France, channelling anxieties about class, race and national identity into projects of breeding domestic animals. This essay explores how the animal painter Rosa Bonheur figured an imagined agricultural superabundance through ...
Stephanie Triplett
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Tuning the Electronic Properties of Mesocrystals
Small Science, Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Nanostructured metamaterials in the form of monophase or even binary mesocrystals are subject to fundamental research in recent literature. Herein, a more application‐oriented property—the electrical conductivity—is investigated in great detail and reveals the vast potential that such multicomponent superstructures can inhere.
Christian Jenewein +4 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 27-45, February 2022., 2022 Abstract The history of historiography has tended to disregard translations of early modern European vernacular histories. Whereas sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century histories frequently circulated in various languages, scholarship has predominantly analysed them in national historiographical silos.
Helmer Helmers
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Highlighting Theodor W. Engelmann's “Farbe und Assimilation” [Color and Assimilation]
Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 121-126, November 2021., 2021 Abstract In 1883, Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, a German scientist, wrote his essay “color and assimilation” (Ger.: “Farbe und Assimilation”) describing the state of the art in photosynthesis research, his recent findings, and further assumptions based upon his presented results. Nearly 140 years later, many of his assumptions were proven correct.
Nils Hendrik Hintz
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The Beginnings of Pancreatology as a Field of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 This review presents the history of discoveries concerning the pancreas. In antiquity and the Middle Ages knowledge about the anatomy of the pancreas was very limited and its function was completely unknown. Significant progress was first made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Piotr Ceranowicz +5 more
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La première iconographie du castor [PDF]
, 2008 La première iconographie du castor canadien suit des modèles européens quand il s’agit de reproduire les traits de la bête. Fidèle alors à la « doctrine des signatures », telle que définie par Michel Foucault, elle insiste ...
Gagnon, François-Marc
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Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 11, November 2025.The variability in responses to environmental change between populations remains poorly quantified and understood. This shortcoming has major consequences, as variation and flexibility of life‐history traits between populations contribute to the estimation of the adaptive potential, which is necessary for predicting the responses of interconnected ...
Camille Schatz +5 more
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Les marqueteries de la chapelle Saint-Louis au Chasteau de Chantilly [PDF]
, 2012 peer ...
Bugini, Mariaelena
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History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 502-525, September 2025.Abstract Lucy Parsons was one of the most famous radical orators of the United States, but little has been written about her visit to Britain. This article investigates Parsons's lecture tour of Britain in the winter of 1888, based on an invitation from the Socialist League to address meetings to commemorate the Haymarket Affair and tour the country to
Aileen Lichtenstein
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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